Theresa May 'begged for help' from Jean-Claude Juncker on Brexit

EU sources leak highly personal account of dinner between Theresa May and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker.

May is described as “anxious… despondent and discouraged,” with “deep rings” under her eyes.

The prime minister “begged for help” on Brexit, according to the account leaked to the German press.

May’s allies react with fury to the latest leak.

LONDON — Theresa May “begged for help” from the EU to save Brexit negotiations, according to a leaked account of her dinner last week with European Commission president Claude Juncker.

The prime minister appeared “anxious… despondent and discouraged,” and had “deep rings” under eyes due to the “enemies at her neck… waiting for her to fall” according to the account given to the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

The “tormented” prime minister reportedly told Juncker that “she had no room for manoeuvre” with her own party on so pleaded with the EU to make some room for her in negotiations.